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The Thessalonian Road to Self-Support – David Alan Black

A couple of days ago Dave Black said he was working on this essay and now it’s complete and available at Dave Black Online.  I think it’s a wonderful essay and certainly points in the right direction. I would add two notes: 1)  I don’t think being paid for ministry is excluded.  Paul didn’t.  He…

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Dave Black Returns from Ethiopia

… and he’s already thinking about a new essay: I’m currently writing an essay on missions and finances, particularly the issue of the funding of church planting. I’ve been scouring the Pauline epistles to see what the greatest church planter who ever lived had to say. (Thus far my essay is tentatively titled “The Thessalonian…

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Good Friday

For good Friday we present a few post from blogs by our authors and/or staff: From Jody’s Devotionals (Jody Neufeld, co-owner):  Prayer and Praise, Even on Good Friday From Allan R. Bevere:  Good Friday: A Chance Encounter in a Divinely Orchestrated Drama From the Participatory Bible Study Blog:  St. John Chrysostom on Being Strangers Note…

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Allan R. Bevere – The Main Reason for the Sad State of Discipleship

Allan has posted the first of a series regarding limited government, titled A Christian Case for Limited Government #1: Introduction.  Now Scot McKnight has linked to the post, and has generated 63 comments in one day, some of them fairly vigorous! Go join the discussion one place or the other. (Allan R. Bevere is the…

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Geoffrey Lentz on Glenn Beck and Social Justice

Geoffrey Lentz thinks Glenn Beck has a point, at least if you look at it from a certain perspective. He says: What would happen if we “let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like an everlasting stream” (Amos)?  It wouldn’t work out very well for me. And of course, that might force a change…